So, a friend of mine, who is also German and bilingual, (and laughs at me while I'm attempting to pronounce German words...darn that "r" sound!) thinks you're doing a really good job so far. Just to let you know.

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Tue May 25, 2010 12:10 pm

valerio

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Re: German Translation

welcome back!!! i was missing your language

I couldn't help noticing that in the 'a real buzz' strip, you changed the original text to 'Chocolate-covered espresso beans and free time are a very bad combination'. How come, out of curiosity? Perhaps the direct translation would have resulted in a too-long sentence?

Keep up the great job!

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Tue May 25, 2010 1:42 pm

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Re: German Translation

valerio Wrote:

welcome back!!! i was missing your language

I couldn't help noticing that in the 'a real buzz' strip, you changed the original text to 'Chocolate-covered espresso beans and free time are a very bad combination'. How come, out of curiosity? Perhaps the direct translation would have resulted in a too-long sentence?

Keep up the great job!

Hm... honestly i am not really sure if i my translation in this case is good.If i keep closer to the original text it would be 'Hab niemals zuviel Zeit und Schokoladen-Überzogene Espressobohnen im gleichen Raum' (this is a 1:1 translation now). I think i will change the text in the strip tomorrow as the first translation is a bit too far away from the original.

Thu May 27, 2010 4:15 pm

lynard

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Re: German Translation

And one more - the other one's of this arc giving me some headache for a good translation, i will sleep over it, maybe i will have some inspiration

first strip, second panel, grape saying something like 'these are the kind of ideas you should keep to yourself', right? Good enough, it respects the original meaning.Also, AltehrwurdigenHundeClub...*whew* one should get admitted only for pronouncing without blabbering

translation:very well done, by the way, I can help too, my "school english" is good enough to understand this stuff, and I shouldn't have any problems as a German from Germany

Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:18 pm

lynard

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Re: German Translation

valerio Wrote:

first strip, second panel, grape saying something like 'these are the kind of ideas you should keep to yourself', right? Good enough, it respects the original meaning.Also, AltehrwurdigenHundeClub...*whew* one should get admitted only for pronouncing without blabbering

Great work as usual!! Keep 'em coming!

Yes, that's the translation. I usually try to translate into german and then look over the sentences if they make sense and if they sound like spoken in german (which doesn't work sometimes)

The Club's name.... welll yes, i was thinking quite some time about that. If you translate 'Good old Boys Dog Club' word by word you will get something nobody calls a club in german I could also used 'Alteingesessen' which means long-established, but i thought that the current translation sounds a bit better

Alright, i posted this strip as a single one because i need to explain the third panel (as i know some people would ask about). In the original Version the Dialog is:Peanut: Sorry, but you have to admit You're something of a TomboyGrape: Tomcat

(I'm staying in english here, I think thats more polite to the rest of the people here)Well you are right, thats a very close translation to the original sentence. The question is, how far do you want to 'germanise' the comic? (Just thinking about Malt Beer with Vanilla Ice... I don't think that would be something i'd like to drink)

Considering the availability of root beer here in germany - Most stores like Real, or Lidl are selling Root Beer - of course not the large amount of brands you will find in an american store like Safeways (or any other), but you can find it here in germany, too.

I think some people here are using the german translation to polish their german knowledge some so the question is - how far should the translation go? Does an american know, what malt beer is? (I mean the sweet non-alcoholic stuff you can buy here, not the general term). If so, i could change the meaning for it in the last comic strip.

Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:09 am

lynard

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Re: German Translation

The Racoons Arc

Edit: Argh, noticed, that the uploaded order of the panels was wrong - corrected that

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Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:28 pm

valerio

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Re: German Translation

excellent job as usual

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Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:42 pm

lynard

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Re: German Translation

Alright, back again (finally) - after having my time eaten up by my job and preparations for EF16. And here we go with The Adventures of Spot:

I have the "for he's a jelly good fellow..."think willful in english the point is that german people sings from time to time english songs example:"happy birthday to you" and i guess that is better than the german version^^

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Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:42 am

valerio

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Re: German Translation

still doing great.Curiosity: when you say 'Hi' and 'Hip Hip Hooray' in English, do you say that in German too?

the answer is YES "Hi" is in german a basic word meant the self thing we in english but by "Hipp Hipp Hooray" that say not many german people most of all "Hipp Hipp Hurra" but it sounds better in the strip

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Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:59 pm

valerio

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Re: German Translation

I see. Thank you.But don't be afraid of using German equivalents of certain phrases when you can. I used ip ip urra', for example.

I'm back so at the work at the weekend participates my PC destroys the whole work stupid thing to and I became it illy is my accident further about only today, too

Info: to the first stripe the part in the middel from Karl-Leinen Faust was therefore simply to translate it correctly by no means there is not some words for that's in german among us the large part {most part} is improvised but should be so correct i hope you unterstand this

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